Jessica Dickinson

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Two galleries, P! and Room East—located about five blocks from each other, respectively in Chinatown and the Lower East Side—came together for a group show titled O / U. That’s shorthand for “over-under,” which may refer to the sports wager where you bet on the combined score in a game. The text for the exhibition suggests it may also refer to “a complicated sexual position, a type of double barrel shotgun,” or the formal qualities of overprinting or undercutting. Of course, overall, it suggests that the conceptual layering is heaavy, though the two galleries are spare and clean and contemporary looking.

Jessica Dickinson makes paintings and works on paper, and has been based in Brooklyn since 1999. She has had solo exhibitions at Bas Fisher Invitational in Miami and Brooklyn Fire Proof project space, and her work has been included in group exhibitions at Guild & Greyshkul, Max Protetch, Andrew Kreps, Derek Eller, and Zieher Smith, among others. She received her MFA from Cranbrook and BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art; awards include the Marie Walsh Sharpe studio residency. Dickinson is currently working on her upcoming solo exhibition, Here, at James Fuentes LLC, August 10 – Sept.20, 2009. www.jamesfuentes.com